personal-growth

I want to share my story, and I want to know yours. I believe with all my heart that sharing our stories, the real, ugly, broken ones, is one of the most powerful things in the world, because to share our story we must first accept it. We must own it. We must stop running from it or shoving it into the corner when company comes over. To share our story is to admit that we've been changed.

I wanted a life full of intrigue and mystery, new environments, and new people...[a] temporary life with no fear of being trapped,

Your life plays out as a reflection of your genetic makeup and potentiality as expressed through your environment and choices. Love yourself enough to create an environment in your life that is conducive to the nourishment of your personal growth. Allow yourself to let go of the people, thoughts, and situations that poison your well-being. Cultivate a vibrant surrounding and commit yourself to making choices that will help you release the greatest expression of your unique beauty and purpose.

Live that way long enough, and you will literally find yourself addicted to the acceptance of people. You will constantly need verbal affirmation. You will depend on always receiving a steady stream of invitations to events you don__ even want to attend. You will feel as though you need a significant other in your life at all times. I__ not exaggerating - this need for external acceptance will literally become an addiction. And that turns every one of your relationships - personal, professional, and romantic - into a codependent one. You are not in the relationship with a full heart able to give love away. You are in the relationship because you NEED it. You don__ know how you__ survive, much less thrive, without it. You are using every person to fill a void in your heart that you simply refuse to fill yourself. This is a mess.

Love sparkles out from those giving and receiving it. It can be seen and felt. Love causes flowers to bloom, providing beauty. it causes hearts to bloom, providing the beauty which is instilled within me and you. Love always causes more love to grow.

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.

In every time, in every culture, ordinary people have done extraordinary things.

Many of the confusions, conflicts, and disarrays that are rampant in today__ organizations, communities, and nations could have been avoided if leaders have solid self-awareness...

Start from your heart. The greatest journeys begin on the inside.

Work harder to become better person. There is no guarantee how long we are going to be here. Enjoy life.

In my own life, I have always viewed personal mastery as simply a medium through which I become capable of providing more service toward my fellow man.

You can start on a clean slate or make excuses, but you can't do both.

Claiming our birthright means living in beauty inwardly regardless of our outer circumstances. It means cultivating the qualities coded in our hearts.

By becoming a black belt, you will become whatever it is you wanted to be in the first place, and Jiu Jitsu will have served its aim.

Every fit has a misfit. Finding your fit is the path rather than fighting to fit.

Our life force is a form of flowing energy, a blast of verve renewed through our ongoing daily interactions and the inevitable collisions between the id and the ego.

We live and learn, change and grow. Older, but not always wiser. Stronger but not necessarily smarter. Life is a dance of steps taken forward and backwards, time spent standing still, and twirling in circles as we follow our own shadows.

At anytime you can decide to live a life that says " I love myself